Greg Van Avermaet (CCC Team) has ridden consistently well so far through the Spring Classics, but the two-time winner at Omloop Het Niewsblad, 2017 Paris-Roubaix, Gent-Wevelgem and E3 Harelbeke has come up empty so far in 2019 with just one chance remaining to put a check in the win column at a Classic. The 33-year-old Belgian will line up Sunday for Amstel Gold Race with a strong squad backing him and a high motivation to improve on his Amstel-best of fifth in 2015. `Amstel Gold Race is my last chance to get a good result this spring,` he said. `I was really disappointed after Paris-Roubaix, knowing that I had the legs for a better result so, I am motivated to line up at Amstel Gold Race and turn things around. I have had good legs throughout the classics, and although I am missing a big result, I think I have consistency showed that my form is good. It would be nice to end this first part of the season with a good result on Sunday.`ADVERTISEMENT Van Avermaet has been at the head of nearly every Spring Classic when things counted, but he`s just missed the podium`s top step. He finished second in Omloop after Zdenek Stybar (Deceuninck-QuickStep) slipped away from a select group near the end of the 200km race. Van Avermaet was sixth in Strade Bianche after eventual winner Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep), escaped near the end of the Italian Classic with Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). At the newly minted E3 BinckBank Classic, Van Avermaet was third in a five-up sprint behind Stybar and Van Aert. He finished 20th in the reduced-bunch sprint won by Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) at the end of Gent-Wevelgem, and he was 10th in a large group that finished 17 seconds behind Tour of Flanders winner Alberto Bettiol. Van Avermaet was once again an animator at Paris-Roubaix, but he missed the move that saw first-time winner Philippe Gilbert (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Nils Politt (Katuasha-Alpecin) ride into the velodrome for ...
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